Apt

Apt is the 9,484th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,279 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 91,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,279
Rank: 9,484th
How common: 1 in 91,200
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German, Yiddish

A variant of Abt, a surname of German origin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Apt described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 52.1%
Hispanic or Latino 20.8%
Black, not Hispanic 17.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 7.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Apt

Jay Apt (born 1949)American astronaut, scientist, and professor

People named Apt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.